Testing. Testing. Does it still work?

Two head blows in a week, a probable throat infection, and now a regular cold... Is this a blatant argument for never going on a trip again? Have there been any long term consequences? Do the words still stumble out in incoherent fashion from the fingers of fickle folly? It seems okay right now, although the headache is still quite concerning. Hello, headache, you old friend you. You'll not stop the emending if it happens, no!

Can disrupted sleep and headaches stop the incredible flow of the Quirky Muffin? Yes, in this case, as the flow is barely a dribble. Oh, what woe is this? What horrific sham of the natural state of affairs? The spring of narrative vitality has become drowned under a lake of mud as yet uncleaned by Orpheus. Oh, Orpheus, you and your silly ditties! I shall persevere though, mainly by using the random word approach to get something useful to write about.

Golly, I hate being sick, even just a little sick! Being sick can cause a very common extreme version of cognitive dissonance, that grand disagreement between our ambitions and actual performances that causes most forms of mental distress. Ever felt really disoriented or upset when you've done something that you really felt was wrong? Well, it might have been cognitive dissonance. Actually I suspect it is more apparent across patterns of behaviour rather than single actions but I'm not a psychological expert. What on Earth did they do in the old days when it was commonplace for people to do things against their own inclinations or even health?

Is it also cognitive dissonance if you watch a foreign language movie dubbed into English? I've never understood dubs as the lack of agreement between movement and sound is so distressing as to be painful. How could anyone choose a dub over a subtitle track? It remains a mystery. There are even worse things than a dub though, as experienced on a length coach trip to Poland a few years ago. Some countries favour the translated narration device instead of a dub, which is a truly hideous thing, destroying as it does any value for people who can speak the film's native language. Also, the movie was 'Troy', already making the whole endeavour extremely hazardous to the health. (The dub I watched was 'Mothra vs Godzilla' which was terribly terribly weird even without the dub.)

Alas, there can not be much more on this occasion, as the energy has been spent and exhaustion has set in again. It's time to revert to a classic episode of 60s Star Trek and then collapse into a heap.

O.